Nope. Some people manage to maintain a score north of 2000. It's a matter of analyzing the board and your opponents, and figuring out how to survive. To keep a high score, you also have to have a strategy for surviving the early part of the game when you get a lousy draw. Exiting first is a sure way to lose big points.

There was a thread called "stratergy" but I can´t find it. You could read quite a bit about the strategies of people with 2000+ points.

One of my strategies:
It´s not most important to win every game but never to loose one ;-)

diplomacy and talking. It changes everything and allows for a lot of interesting strategy